For many Steam game devs, this is an opportunity to get together in Valve's stomping grounds and learn from both Valve representatives and each other. It's also a place where Valve speaks openly (if quietly, given that members of the media are not typically invited to Dev Days) about its plans for the future, and thus it's always fun to skim Twitter and see what Steam Dev Days attendees are saying about their time at the show.

With that in mind, we've gone ahead and collected a smorgasbord of attendee tweets (about everything from a new VR controller prototype to the state of paid mods on Steam) from Steam Dev Days below to give anyone who isn't attending a sense of what's happening at Valve's game dev conclave:

Big steam takeaway: the number of games released spiking is balanced in part by tons of new players.